Jessica DePriest

•teacher~mother~writer~connector•

[Jessica DePriest @JessKDePriest]

I found these keys 10 y ago in Virginia Beach, VA washed up in the sand. I tried looking for the owner at that time. I’ve just unearthed them again in a box. Can the Internet help find the owner? The dog tag still has the barely-visible name on it. #lostkeys #Chopper #findmykeys

[Paul S. Conyngham @paul_conyngham]

https://t.co/bpa3HHt8Mg

[The Principal’s Office @educator4ever36]

Parents - NEVER listen to an educator telling you that your child doesn’t need to memorize the multiplication tables. The differences in performance by those who have it memorized and those that don’t is very clear to teachers.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

This is the first and likely the last time I’ll retweet an ad, but I love it.

[James A. Furey @JamesAFurey]

Differentiation is a teaching theory invented in response to a seemingly intractable problem: when we mass-educate by age instead of ability, we end up with students at wildly different levels of knowledge and skill in the same room.

Rather than address that underlying issue, we ask one teacher to teach multiple curricula at once and grade as if those differences don’t exist.

When this predictably fails, the blame is placed on the teacher instead of where it belongs: on the bunk theory itself.

[Jessica DePriest @JessKDePriest]

@educatedandfree @MrDanielBuck Agree, but we have one who has it written into her IEP.

[National Sleep Foundation @sleepfoundation]

Ok, ok, we all love an extra hour of sleep. Unfortunately changing the clocks is not good for circadian health.

That’s why, for years, NSF has advocated for a move to Permanent Standard Time.

Learn more about how circadian rhythms work:

https://t.co/YruwjpJehL

[Jessica DePriest @JessKDePriest]

@JamesAFurey This. Thus has it always been.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

There’s a great line in Philip Pullman’s new book—“Without imagination you never see the truth about anything … You think you see more truth, but in fact you see less”—& I can’t help feeling that to dismiss folklore & myth because they aren’t true is a kind of spiritual poverty.

[Jessica DePriest @JessKDePriest]

@iamdieforyouuu Hello, Apple Cake!

[Jessica DePriest @JessKDePriest]

@jmasseypoet Dr Daniel Amen was on the Diary of a CEO podcast (solo) recently and his take on depression was eye opening. Suggests brain scan to really see what is going on. Likens this to x-ray to determine why your arm hurts. I was fascinated - thought I knew so much about The Beast.

[Mark Hyman, M.D. @drmarkhyman]

1 in 3 kids in America start their day with food from the National School Breakfast Program - a bowl of Froot Loops and a glass of orange juice. 41 grams of sugar before school even starts.

The upper limit for children is 12 grams per DAY.

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

for anyone in the darkness

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

I have always loved Umberto Eco's concept of the "antilibrary" https://t.co/Y7BQF2SLkJ

[Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform” @MrDanielBuck]

"But but but schools just need more money!"

Countless times, the Department of Education tried just that: Sending schools piles of money.

Ya know what happened every time?

No academic improvements.

Here are four examples🧵

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

The avg young person today is on course to spend 25 years of their life on their phone. (Plus more on other screens). Most of them don't want to live this way, but feel trapped.

How about we delay giving smartphones and tablets till at least 14?

https://t.co/aJMaAxcMrD

[Jessica DePriest @JessKDePriest]

@ninja_maths Our students don’t memorize multiplication tables anymore. “They don’t need it. They have a phone.”

[Jessica DePriest @JessKDePriest]

@SketchesbyBoze This.

[Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform” @MrDanielBuck]

🚨A district superintendent w/ a warning🚨

"If you're in public education over the last 10 years, what you've seen massively is the behaviors are off the charts

It's not unusual at all for me to have a kindergarten kid pick up a desk and throw it at their peer."

[American Rivers @americanrivers]

Public lands sales are officially out of the budget reconciliation package. You made this happen! Special thanks to Republican Senators Daines, Sheehy, Risch, and Crapo, and Representatives Zinke, Simpson, Newhouse, Bentz, and Valadao for keeping public lands in public hands.

🔗 https://t.co/cNprPB7hR7